So, my ongoing saga to discover a proper personal instant streaming music + personal storage solution continues. To recap, strictly streaming libraries like Spotify or Rdio do not meet my needs. And, thus far, my experiments with a symlink'ed iTunes library folder + Dropbox have failed.*

Trusted friend of the site, Paige Maguire-Schneider has been providing some insight into her solutions, as she is in the exact same boat as I am. Her latest find is Audiobox, a cloud based music storage sync that pairs with Dropbox, Skydrive, Google Drive, Box and their own storage. At first glance, it looks real promising. The only hurdle I see for it is that you have to get your entire collection actually into the cloud first and sync'ed locally. I'm still working on that part as Dropbox can't seem to handle what I'm offering it.

I'm quite intrigued by Audiobox but, thus far, my best solution has been an external drive housing my iTunes library paired with Google Play Music. That way I get instant access when I'm at work (where the physical drive resides and I spend most of my computing time) but still have access to every single mp3 when I'm remote, as GPM is constantly sync'ing those additions into my remote account.

* Nerd Stuff.